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#1

“People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Sailor in the Wardrobe

tags: character, future, growing-up, growth, heritage, history, identity, innocence, maturity, past, personal-history, personality, predispositions, self-discovery

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#2

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

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#3

“I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: growing-up, life

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#4

“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”
― Michelle Tea

tags: growing-up

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#5

“A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.”
― Hiromi Goto

tags: childhood, growing-up

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#6

“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
― Russell Baker

tags: children, education, growing-up, parenting

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#7

“Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

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#8

“I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…”
― Jennifer Elisabeth

tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, depression, destiny, eyes, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, healing, hope, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, voice, wish

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#9

“To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.”
― Adam Phillips, Equals

tags: discovery, equality, growing-up

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#10

“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: love, memories, sacrifice, time

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#11

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#12

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

tags: family, friendship, humor

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#13

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

tags: family

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#14

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

tags: family, home

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#15

“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: family, sisters

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#16

“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

tags: children-s-lit, family

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#17

“It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.'
'Why are you saying that?'
'She might need permission to die, Cal.'
'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

tags: before-i-die, cancer, death, family, sad

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#18

“If you walked away from a

toxic, negative, abusive,

one-sided, dead-end

low vibrational

relationship or friendship

— you won.”
― Lalah Delia

tags: abusive-relationships, best-decision, break-up-quotes, dead-end, depression, drama, encouragement, encouraging, family, focus, friendship, high-frequency, inspirational-quotes, lalah-delia, letting-go, letting-go-quotes, life, life-lessons, love, love-quotes, low-frequency, motivational-quote, moving-forward, moving-on-and-letting-go, negative-energy, negative-influence, negative-people, overcomer, positive-mindset, positive-people, positive-thinking, positivity, purpose, relationship-quotes, relationships, soul-mate, soul-mates, toxic-people, vibrate-higher, vibrate-higher-daily, victory, walk-away, winning, won

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#19

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”
― Philippa Gregory

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#20

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: closing-line, last-words, self-sacrifice

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#21

“He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away.
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
He has wandered into an unknown land
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be, since he lingers there.
And you—oh you, who the wildest yearn
For an old-time step, and the glad return,
Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here.
Think of him still as the same. I say,
He is not dead—he is just away.”
― James Whitcomb Riley

tags: afterlife, death, death-of-a-loved-one

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